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What do you mean by lottery option?
Does that mean that she thinks anyone who qualifies to be a candidate is automatically qualified to win?
I mean it's probably leagues better than the current system where the only people who get anywhere near the presidency are the powergrubbers.
-- Frost
That's actually the original intent of the presidency, from what I recall reading: they should be a relatively normal guy who keeps Congress in check, little more. Oh, well.
Randomly selecting from a pool of available candidates?
Maybe if you don't choose it's a vote for a lottery to pick. If half the population doesn't vote then the winner is a random person. So if the authorities manage to prevent people from voting then they can't seize the system with their own pick
Random? I'd hope they were at least qualified. Believe me, I wouldn't want most of the people I know in charge of anything. I wouldn't even trust myself with a town budget.
Right, but this is a democracy we are talking about. If half of the people participating are convinced the entire selection is no better than a random pick then that is very damning.
Kinda sounds similar to Jury Duty. I don't know why you'd ban PhDs though.
Experts do know best in their field of expertise, that's what makes them experts. In such a "Citizen Jury" if we lucked out and got a PhD in microbiology I would probably want that person on the FDA committee or whatever.
Excluding someone from the political process because they have an education is called Kakistocracy.
One of the first thing authoritarians do is eliminate or crush intellectuals. The Soviets murdered all of the Polish intellectuals. The Khmer Rouge did the same thing. Even wearing glasses made you "guilty". They don't want anyone who can talk back.